CaseRectangle1997

Unincorporated, AZ, USA

Giant rotating rectangular shaped "mirror" flying accross the sky.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-02-01
Where
Unincorporated, AZ, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
Slug
rectangle-over-unincorporated-az-1997-06e116
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Unincorporated, AZ.
  • This case is one of 145 Arizona reports filed in 1997.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.4% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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